In July of that year five of the women in Hasbeiya united with the Church.
In 1852 and 1853 the Female Seminary in Beirut reached a high degree of prosperity, and the girls' schools in different parts of the land were well attended.

Miss Cheney arrived from America to supply Miss Whittlesey's place.
In 1854, Dr.De Forest was obliged from failing health, to relinquish his work and return to the United States.

A nobler man never lived.

As a physician he was widely known and universally beloved, and as a teacher and preacher he exerted a lasting influence.

The good wrought by that saintly man in Syria will never be fully known in this world.